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Friday November 9, 2012 8:05 AM

Today is
Friday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2012. There are 52 days left in the year.

Highlights in History

• On
Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores
and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as “Kristallnacht.”

• In
1918, it was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then
fled to the Netherlands.

• In
1953, Welsh author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

• In
1963, twin disasters struck Japan as about 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust
explosion, and about 160 people died in a train crash.

• In
1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as a series of power failures lasting
up to 131/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without
electricity.

• In
1970, former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79.

• In
1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel
freely.

•
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush said in his Saturday radio address that
Saddam Hussein faced a final test to surrender weapons of mass destruction.

•
Five years ago: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day and rounded up thousands of her supporters to
block a mass rally against his emergency rule.

•
One year ago: After 46 seasons as Penn State’s head football coach and a record
409 victories, Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president, Graham Spanier, over
their handling of child sexual-abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.